The Tao of Gethsemane

“For as the body is one, and hath

many members, and all the members

of that one body, being many, are one

body: so also is Christ.”

                    - I Corinthians, 12:12

Christ, in the garden, meditating on His fate,

accepting the redemptive value of suffering,

realizing His Tao is clear, the Way is His and

His alone. True wu wei*!

One body, many souls. And

each soul must find its own

Way, a lesson obfuscated by

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,

only to be clarified by Hermann Hesse.

I, novitiate, bow to those whose

Tao is difficult; I bow to the Christ whose

Tao is most difficult: walking

with the Immortals.

Wu wei follows the natural path.

*Literal translation: non-action, non-doing: Taoism